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Mad City (Wide Screen)
Mad City (Wide Screen)
Stars: Dustin Hoffman, John Travolta, Alan Alda, Mia Kirshner, William Atherton, Blythe Danner, Robert Prosky, Ted Levine, Randall Batinkoff, Larry King, Jay LenoDirector: Costa Gavras
Summary: When a recently fired museum guard (John Travolta) files a grievance with his boss by menacing her with a shotgun and ends up with a gaggle of schoolkid hostages, it seems like the perfect opportunity for a has-been news anchor (Dustin Hoffman) to revive his flagging career. Indeed, the ratings soar, with the newsman inflating the standoff and priming his slow-witted star for the limelight.
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Mad Cityis an earnest effort at media criticism that's never convincing enough to stir a viewer's outrage in the way filmmaker Costa-Gavras (Music Box) might have intended. John Travolta plays a barely educated museum guard who is laid off from his job and ends up holding his former boss (Blythe Danner) and a bunch of schoolchildren hostage. Dustin Hoffman is a former television-network journalist making a grab at the limelight again by pushing and controlling press coverage of the story.
What follows is by the numbers and not nearly as enlightening or enthralling as other films (such as Dog Day Afternoonor Billy Wilder's Ace in the Hole) about simple events manipulated into a media circus. Despite Travolta's tragic performance and Hoffman's impassioned one, the film breaks up over efforts to blame electronic voyeurism for social chaos. --Tom Keogh, Amazon.com
| Aspect Ratio: | 2.35 Wide Screen |
| Main Language: | English |
| Region: | Region 2 |
| Special Features: | Interactive Menus, Scene Access |
| Subtitles: | Arabic, Bulgarian, Dutch, English, French, German, Italian, Portuguese, Romanian, Spanish |
| Year: | 1997 |
| Release Date: | April 22, 2002 |
| Runtime: | 110 minutes |
| Certification: | |
| Catalogue Number: | D 015433 |
| Keywords: | Action, Mad, City, General, Wide, Screen, Adventure |
| Genre: | Action/Adventure |
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